Section: Overall Objectives

Introduction

The Hipercom2 team aims to design, evaluate and optimize the telecommunication algorithms. The aimed areas are protocols and standards dealing with communication support and quality of service management in wireless networks. The aimed activity fields are centered around the new networks and services supporting internet. Although we address the whole spectrum of telecommunication domain, practically the Hipercom2 team is specialized in mobile ad hoc networks, mesh networks, wireless sensor networks and vehicular networks. However the thematic extends to the information theory as well as network and traffic modelling.

The scientific foundations are the following:

• Methodology for telecommunication algorithm evaluation,

• Traffic and network architecture modeling,

• Algorithm design, evaluation and implementation,

• Simulation of network algorithms and protocols.

The objectives assigned to HIPERCOM2 were:

• Wireless ad hoc networks: modeling and protocol design,

• Wireless sensor networks: cross-layering, energy and bandwidth efficiency,

• Vehicular and mobile applications for intelligent transportation systems as well as military tactical networks.